People

Full-time Faculty | Emeritus Faculty | Adjunct and Visiting Appointments
Other Anthropologists at the University of Iowa | Department Founder | Graduate Students

FULL-TIME FACULTY:

Margaret E. Beck (PhD U Arizona 2003; Assistant Professor with 0% appointment in American Indian & Native Studies) Archaeology, ceramic technology and use, site and assemblage formation, ethnoarchaeology; U.S. Southwest, U.S. Great Plains, Philippines

Office/lab: 231 MH/15 MH Phone: 335-0286 Email: margaret-beck@uiowa.edu

Thomas Charlton (PhD 1966, Tulane; Professor) Art and style, ethnohistory, historical archaeology of American society, archaeology and comparative evolution of civilizations, Mesoamerican archaeology, ethnology, ethnohistory, and historical archaeology

Office/lab: 247 MH/17 MH Phone: 335-0535/335-0526 Email: thomas-charlton@uiowa.edu

Michael Chibnik (PhD 1975, Columbia; Professor) Economic anthropology, artisans, environmental anthropology, research methods; Latin America (especially Mexico and Peru)

Office: 233 MH Phone: 335-0530 Email: michael-chibnik@uiowa.edu

Russell L Ciochon (PhD 1986, UC-Berkeley; Professor with 0% appointment in Department of Pediatric Dentistry) Paleoanthropology, human evolution and primate paleontology, geochronology of Asian Plio-Pleistocene hominin sites, Eocene primate diversity in Southeast Asia, comparative primate anatomy and systematics; SE Asia, China, India and Indonesia

Office/lab: 129 MH/26 MH Phone: 335-0534/335-2751 Email: russell-ciochon@uiowa.edu

James G Enloe (PhD 1991, U New Mexico; Associate Professor) Archaeology, hunter-gatherers, zooarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology; Old World Paleolithic, Europe

Office/lab: 241 MH/17C MH Phone: 335-0514 Email: james-enloe@uiowa.edu

Robert G Franciscus (PhD 1995, U New Mexico; Associate Professor with 0% appointments in Neuroscience, Orthodontics) Human paleontology, paleoanthropology, skeletal biology, functional morphology, human variation; Europe, Near East, Africa

Office/lab: 131 MH/135 MH Phone: 335-1421/335-0945 Email: robert-franciscus@uiowa.edu

Laura R Graham (PhD 1990, UT-Austin; Associate Professor) Cultural politics and representation; language, expressive culture and performance; semiotics; indigenous media; indigenous peoples; human rights; advocacy; South America, Amazonia, Brazil, Venezuela

Office/lab: 223 MH/17A MH Phone: 335-0517 Email: laura-graham@uiowa.edu

Adi Hastings (PhD 2004, U Chicago; Assistant Professor) Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, sociology of knowledge, colonialism, nationalism, religion and ritual, cultural politics; South Asia, Fiji

Office: 217 MH Phone: 353-2817 Email: adi-hastings@uiowa.edu

Matthew E. Hill (PhD 2007, U Arizona; Assistant Professor) Archaeology, zooarchaeology, human impacts to environment, ecology and environment, hunter-gatherers, Paleoindians; Great Plains, Southwest US

Office: 235 MH Phone: 335-1425 Email: matthew-e-hill@uiowa.edu

Meena Khandelwal (PhD 1995, U Virginia; Associate Professor with 25% appointment in Women’s Studies) Asceticism, gender, sexuality, feminist anthropology, kinship, religion, Indian diaspora; South Asia

Office: 225 MH Phone: 335-2496 Email: meena-khandelwal@uiowa.edu

Ellen Lewin (PhD 1975, Stanford; Professor with 50% appointment in Women’s Studies) Feminist anthropology; gender, sexuality, and reproduction; lesbian/gay anthropology; medical anthropology; US cultures

Office: 210 JB Phone: 335-1610 Email: ellen-lewin@uiowa.edu

Katina Lillios (PhD 1991, Yale; Associate Professor) Archaeology of complex societies, memory and identity, anthropology of death, nationalism and archaeology, geoarchaeology; Iberian Peninsula, Europe

Office/lab: 127B MH/127 MH Phone: 335-3023/335-0109 Email: katina-lillios@uiowa.edu

Erica Prussing (PhD 1999, UC-San Diego; Assistant Professor with 0% appointment in Department of Community & Behavioral Health) Critical medical and psychological anthropology, cultural epidemiology, science studies, feminist anthropology, alcohol and drug studies; Native North America

Office: 229 MH Phone: 335-0528 Email: erica-prussing@uiowa.edu

Sonia Ryang (PhD 1995, Cambridge; Associate Professor in Anthropology and International Studies, Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Scholar of Korean Studies) Critical ethnography, diaspora, disability, ideology, kinship, love and romantic relations, anthropological theories; Japan, Korea, and Asian America

Office: 215 MH Phone: 384-3255 Email: sonia-ryang@uiowa.edu

Scott Schnell (PhD 1993, Ohio State; Associate Professor) Ecology and environment, religion, social organization and conflict, ritual and performance, politics and representation, historical ethnography; Japan, Okinawa, East Asia

Office: 239 MH Phone: 335-0527 Email: scott-schnell@uiowa.edu

Glenn R Storey (PhD 1992, Penn State; Associate Professor with 75% appointment in Department of Classics) Archaeological demography, the archaeology of urbanization, Roman frontier in Holland; Roman Sicily, the economy of the Roman Empire, applications of ground penetrating radar in archaeology

Office/lab: 209 MH Phone: 335-1866 Email: glenn-storey@uiowa.edu

Nelson Ting (PhD 2008, City University of New York Graduate Center; Assistant Professor) Molecular anthropology, primate molecular ecology, primate evolutionary history, biogeography, conservation biology; Africa, Asia

Office/lab: 207 MH/100BB Phone: 335-2891/384-1285 Email: nelson-ting@uiowa.edu

VISITING APPOINTMENTS:

Jonathan L. Larson (PhD 2007, U Michigan; Visiting Assistant Professor) Criticism and political discourse, knowledge, authority, and trust; publics and public culture, ethnographies of writing, education and socialization, political economy of language; Central-Eastern Europe, Slovak and Czech Republics

Office: 237 MH Phone: 335-0532 Email: jonathan-larson@uiowa.edu

ADJUNCT APPOINTMENTS:

John F Doershuk (PhD 1989, Northwestern; Director and State Archaeologist, Ofc. of State Arch; Adjunct Asstistant Professor) Archaeology, site structure, Archaic hunter-gatherers, Late Prehistoric/Proto-historic, settlement patterns, GIS; N America (especially Midwest and Plains)

Office: 118 CLSB Phone: 384-0751 Email john-doershuk@uiowa.edu

Erik P. Filean (PhD 2006, U Iowa; Adjunct Assistant Professor) Zooarchaeology, political economy, cultural ecology, pastoralism, Iron Age and Roman Period temperate Europe (esp. Netherlands, Balkans, Britain)

Office: 114 MH Phone: 335-0522 Email: ErikF77525@aol.com

Kevin M Kelly (PhD 1988, U Illinois-Urbana; Associate Research Scientist, College of Public Health; Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept of Community and Behavioral Health; Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept of Occupational and Environmental Health; Adjunct Associate Professor) Biological and biomedical anthropology, anthropological genetics, human population biology, rural health, Pacific prehistory, data analysis; Oceania, contemporary US

Office: 178 IREH Phone: 335-4755 Email: kevin-kelly@uiowa.edu

Stephen C Lensink (PhD 1984, U Iowa; Associate Director, Ofc of State Arch; Adjunct Assistant Professor) Archaeology, cultural ecology, optimal foraging theory, village horticulturalists; N America

Office: 118 CLSB Phone: 384-0738 Email: steve-lensink@uiowa.edu

Dongwang Liu (PhD 2005, Iowa State; Assistant Director, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies; Adjunct Assistant Professor) Cultural anthropology, family and kinship in China and U.S., marriage history, and family policies US, China

Office: 1120C UCC Phone: 335-1305 Email: dongwang-liu@uiowa.edu

Alfrieta Parks Monagan (PhD 1981, Princeton; Adjunct Associate Professor) Symbolic anthropology, gender, religion, family and kinship, African-American studies, ethnic studies; Caribbean

Office: 114 MH Phone: 895-4482 Email: alfrieta-monagan@uiowa.edu

Tomomi Naka (PhD 2009, U Iowa; Adjunct Assistant Professor) Economic anthropology, anthropology of religion, research methods; consumption, charity, service-learning; United States, Japan

Office: 114 MH Phone: 335-0522 Email: tomomi-naka@uiowa.edu

Melody K. Pope (PhD 2005, Binghamton; Director General Contracts Program, Ofc of State Arch; Adjunct Assistant Professor) Archaeology, political economy, household studies, heritage tourism, lithic microwear analysis; North America (especially Midwest and Southeast) and Near East

Office: 700 CLSB Phone: 384-0724 Email: melody-pope@uiowa.edu

Shirley J. Schermer (MA 1982, U Iowa; Director Burial Program, Ofc of State Arch; Adjunct Instructor) Archaeology/Physical Anthropology, bioarchaeology, osteology, paleopathology, settlement patterns; North America

Office: 130B-1 CLSB Phone: 384-0740 Email: shirley-schermer@uiowa.edu

ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, SCHOOLS, AND INSTITUTES:

Nanette L. Barkey (PhD 2002, U Florida; Assistant Professor, Community and Behavioral Health) Medical anthropology, international health, research methods, war and conflict, psychological stress, biocultural models; central and southern Africa

Office: E229 GH Phone: 467-5319 Email: nanette-barkey@uiowa.edu

Marcy Rosenbaum (PhD 1994, U Kentucky; Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine) Medical education, medical anthropology, applied anthropology, women's health, complementary alternative medicine; US

Office: 1204 MEB Phone: 335-8612 Email: marcy-rosenbaum@uiowa.edu

T M Scruggs (PhD 1994, UT-Austin; Associate Professor, School of Music). Ethnomusicology, music, identity, and nationalism, media and popular music, Latino music; Latin America, Caribbean, US

Office: 130 CSMS Phone: 335-1617 Email: tm-scruggs@uiowa.edu

Simon, Christian (PhD 1997, UC-San Francisco and UC-Berkeley joint program in Medical Anthropology; Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine). Research ethics and informed consent, e-medicine, communication in cancer care, international health and bioethics, participatory community health, ethics of genomic research; South Africa, United States
Office: 1-110 MEB Phone: 353-4681 Email: csimn@healthcare.uiowa.edu

Toni Tripp-Reimer (PhD 1977, Ohio State; Professor and Associate Dean for Research, College of Nursing; Co-Director John A. Hartford Center for Gerontologic Nursing Excellence). Medical, biological and psychological anthropology, cross-cultural gerontology, transcultural nursing

Office: 406 Phone: 335-7135 Email: toni-reimer@uiowa.edu

EMERITI FACULTY:

Mac Marshall (PhD 1972, U Washington) Alcohol and drug studies, medical anthropology, gender, history and anthropology, kinship Oceania (especially Micronesia and Papua New Guinea), contemporary US

Email: macmarsh@sonic.net

Marshall B. McKusick (PhD 1960, Yale) Archaeology; North America

Phone: 338-6746

Douglas Midgett (PhD 1977, U Illinois) Migration, urbanization, political and economic development, labor history, tourism; Caribbean, the American West

Email: douglas-midgett@uiowa.edu

Margery Wolf Ethnography, feminist anthropology, historical ethnography; Western US, China

Email: margeryw@sonic.net

DEPARTMENT FOUNDER

June Helm

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